hiway29

seems like 'the Walking Dead', fits the criteria of this riddle.

Gotta be a soap opera. I'll say Days of our Lives because they still constantly advertise it in my area.

I never saw a minute of any of those shows. When I was 20 I would have been watching all of them. I have no idea what it all means.

I know Enterprise lasted 4 seasons-I meant it didn't get good until the last one. I'm hoping the one with the chemicals spilling on the guy to give him powers isn't the Flash.

I'm officially out of the loop. None of these ring a bell. The last one about the astronauts going back in time to save earth reminds me of a story arc in that Star Trek series- Enterprise ?- that lasted a season. I remember becoming interested that year, where I was bored before.

In 1979, I somehow wound up running the state of CT bookstore for a year. I was required to not only run a table at every large event, but anytime someone in the state thought it would be nice to have the bookstore at their event. I was working a weird job at a doorknob factory by day,and always on call at night. It took 40 minutes to drive to HQ,then load up the car,drive wherever in CT they wanted me,do the event,drive back to HQ,re stock it all perfectly,do the finances,then drive home to get a few hours sleep before going to work. This was the years Joyful Noise was doing Take a Stand caravan,and of course I'd be selling the album.state leader Steve Str&$!pek gave me some orders as I set up. Apparently Vince F&nn&gan had other ideas,and thought I was disobeying him. He came by the table,yelled something I didn't understand at me, and glared like he really wanted to punch me in the face. Of course I was wrong for causing problems for Vince and was in a no win situation. Not long after,I left work in a rainstorm to go to limb ,load up and go to far side of CT,for a class table. I was met at the door by an irate limb leader's wife who screamed at me for 10 minutes.i didn't know what I was getting yelled at for, it wasn't specific at all. That really set the night of driving in the rain,and getting hom at 1 am. That August they asked me to do it for another year. It may be the only time I said no in 10 years.

I can think of about 20 without reaching, but here's one that stunned me- our Way home group changed plans at the last minute to babysit the branch leaders kid. This was in our own home. We shifted gears, made dinner, had an entire 6 pack of beer split between 7 people, and we found an old Hitchcock movie on TV after the kids were sound asleep. They get back, hit the roof for drinking and watching TV without his permission. He had a bottle of wine and said almost quote:" I picked up some wine to toast the class we just finished, and was going to celebrate with watching TV with you, but you ruined it all ". Suddenly drinking a beer and watching tv was against the law-from a guy who about once a month went out and got sh#t-faced to relieve his personal pressure. He went around the room demanding an apology, but I didn't know what I was to apologize for and said nothing. He also told me to move out soon after. And gave me 3 DAYS to find a place to live and get out. I was happy to move, though I felt like dirt for all these crimes I had committed.

I used to fall asleep to his teachings during meetings sometimes-not trying to make a snide comment, but I did.

This is certainly an obscure show, but I remember it because of the interesting combination playing the leads. I also googled the title which I couldn't remember so I can't say it.

yep WKRP

I agree they should have,maybe seemed longer by constant reruns. Both series were tried again, sometimes with the same actors, but you can't go home again and they never worked (at least for me). new show- The city this takes place in is .mentioned in the pfal class. It also starred a group of actors that seemed to not do much afterwards, though very popular at the time. It also concerned radio which just gave it away.

sure sounds like the Munsters, which along with the Addams Family lasted 2 seasons.

you got it, George. I just read where Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, lasted like 325 episodes. Then morphed into Fernwood Tonight, a mock talk show. That concept had, as they say, legs.

Little House on the Prairie. Mary wasn't so lucky as to get her sight back,. I never read the books but I'm assuming her blindness may have one of the few things that actually happened. Since I know that's the answer, I'll throw out a new one. This was a late night soap opera, which was a spoof on soap operas. The star was just as dysfunctional in real life as the character she played.

it was called 'Broadside", which may be the most interesting thing about the show.

looks like no one's going to get this.I'll try one more clue. The actors I referred to on the show are Kathy Nolan from the Real McCoys, Sheila James, who was Zelda in Dobie Gillis, and Dick Sergeant, the second Darrin in Bewitched..

I don't count Happy Days, though the argument can be made. This was kind of a female version of McHales Navy, with actors from the Real McCoys, Dobie Gillis, and later, Bewitched.

I'll take a guess-The Jeffersons.

yes, Queen for a Day .

new one-this was a 'game show', where the more the contestant made you pity her, the better her chances of winning a crappy washing machine.

sounds like Captain Video to me. I've never seen it, but some things are just in the brains cultural encyclopedia for whatever reason.

just for the record-it's Magoo.

Most things seemed dorky and frankly embarrassing to me when I was in the way- still do. But the Beatles will never be dorky.

this may be slightly off topic, but I've been thinking about it a lot lately. I never went in the Corps, despite being a Twig Leader, class instructor, way home 'head',wow vet, etc-the pressure was there, but I couldn't stand the thought of being told where to be 24 hours a day-and the thought of sleeping in a room with several people, and having to keep everything perfectly organized terrified me. What I've been wondering is-what happened when someone got sick while in residence. I'm sure the pressure to suck it up, believe, and just soldier on was huge-but what happened when someone was really, knock down, flu bug, puking, fever sick ? Was there even a 'third aid' office? Were sick people shown any compassion at all ? Sure, most everyone was young and healthy, but even the strongest go down once in a while-especially when you're constantly pushed, and barely getting enough sleep. I'm assuming anyone with a chronic disease, needing to take medication would not last long. I guess I've been thinking in light of the Crohns disease I contracted right around the time I left the way, and thankful I never had to put that to the test. I also wonder about simple humanity in residence. I will forever regret that I didn't cross the country for my grandmother's funeral while I was out wow. I got crap from the coordinator about leaving my commitment, and I should have just gone. Were way corps even remotely treated like real people with real lives outside the compound ?

it sounded like something there was no chance of my ever getting. I was not watching shows of this nature in the 70's through the 90's.